FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
DAEHAN INVESTMENT & TRUST SECURITIES PURCHASES KAMAKURA MARKET RISK
SYSTEM
HONOLULU, July 13, 2001- Kamakura Corporation, the Honolulu-based provider
of risk information, processing and software, announced today that Daehan
Investment & Trust Securities in Seoul has purchased the Kamakura Risk
Manager KRM-var software market risk software suite. Daehan Investment &
Trust Securities is one of the leading securities firms in Korea. DITS is
Kamakura's fifth client in Korea. Unisys Korea Limited is providing systems
integration services for the Kamakura software at DITS, the fourth time that
Unisys Korea has implemented the Kamakura system. Other clients of Kamakura
in Korea include Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance, Daewoo Securities,
Oriental Fire & Marine Insurance, and the Korean Federation of Community
Credit Cooperatives.
"Kamakura is very proud of our relationship with DITS," said Donald R. van
Deventer, President and CEO of Kamakura Corporation. "We believe that
Kamakura's proven success in the Korean market demonstrates the value of our
partner Robert Jarrow's analytics in markets where conditions have been
volatile and where the returns for institutions investing in best practice
risk management are the highest."
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